Cecilia Sayad is Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Kent in Canterbury. She is the author of three monographs, her most recent titled The Ghost in the Image: Technology and Reality in the Horror Genre (published by Oxford University Press in 2021) and co-editor of Film Criticism in the Digital Age (Rutgers University Press). Her articles have appeared in some of the most renowned Film and Media journals, including Screen, Cinema Journal and Film Quarterly, among others.

Jonathan Rayner is Professor of Film Studies in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. His teaching and research interests span Australian cinema, film and landscape studies, genre films, auteur studies and representations of maritime conflict and naval history in popular culture. His publications include: The Films of Peter Weir (Continuum, 1998/2003), Contemporary Australian Cinema (MUP, 2000), The Naval War Film (MUP, 2007), The Films of Michael Mann (Columbia UP, 2013), Cinema and Landscape (Intellect, 2013, co-edited with Graeme Harper), Mapping Cinematic Norths (Peter Lang, 2016, co-edited with Julia Dobson), Filmurbia (Palgrave, 2017, co-edited with David Forrest and Graeme Harper), Australian Gothic (UWP, 2022) and Screening the Fleet: The Royal Navy on Television 1973-2023 (WRUP, 2025).

Lúcia Nagib, Fellow of the British Academy, is Professor of Film at the University of Reading.  She is an internationally recognised specialist in world cinema, cinematic realism and cinematic intermediality, which she has explored in many publications, including her single-authored books, Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema (2020) and World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism (2011). Before Films to Die For, she directed, with Samuel Paiva, the award-winning feature-length documentary film, Passages (UK, 2019). For more information about her new film, see: https://research.reading.ac.uk/films-to-die-for/

Prof Laura Mulvey is Emerita Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. A key contributor to early feminist film theory, she is the author of: Visual and Other Pleasures (Macmillan 1989/2009), Fetishism and Curiosity (BFI 1996/2013), Citizen Kane (BFI Classics series 1992/2012), Death Twenty- four Times a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image (Reaktion Books 2006) and Afterimages: On Cinema, Women and Changing Times (Reaktion Books 2019). She made six films in collaboration with Peter Wollen including Riddles of the Sphinx (1977), Crystal Gazing (1982) and Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (1980). With artist/filmmaker Mark Lewis, she has made Disgraced Monuments (1994) and 23 August 2008 (2013).

Dr Andrew Philip is a nonfiction filmmaker and lecturer in film studies at Queens University Belfast. He previously worked in the private sector for over two decades as an editor, animator and visual effects artist on feature films and broadcast documentaries. He has written about the characteristics of digital film colour in the context of his practice and is currently working on various videographic essays.

Dr. Yi Lou is a film scholar currently working at the CreatiF Center of the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF Munich), where she leads the funded project “HFF Film Heritage”, oversees the film archive, and delivers lectures on film heritage studies and audiovisual archiving.